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Examples
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My sister was starting to decoupage ash-trays out of ceramic plate fragments.
Figurines Robert Vaughan 2010
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On the table, by the window, stood a gramophone and some tobacco-boxes and ash-trays.
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This duty consisted in sweeping the floor every morning, emptying ash-trays, etc.
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But has anyone noticed the government going through the ash-trays and cup holders in the GSA vehicle fleet or hold a bake-sale or something to raise the cash it's going to shower us with as it rides by?
Random thoughts from a Disordered Mind. Don Lewis 2008
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There was no tallying the gifts of Charvet handkerchiefs, art moderne ash-trays, monogrammed dressing-gowns, gold key-chains, and cigarette-cases of thin wood, inlaid with views of Parisian comfort stations, that were sent him by ladies too quickly confident, and were paid for with the money of unwitting husbands, which is acceptable any place in the world.
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And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
kemo666 Diary Entry kemo666 2006
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I turned away from them, put my foot on the fender, stuck my elbow on the plush-fringed mantelboard, and studied the photographs, pipes, and ash-trays that adorned it.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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There was no tallying the gifts of Charvet handkerchiefs, art moderne ash-trays, monogrammed dressing-gowns, gold key-chains, and cigarette-cases of thin wood, inlaid with views of Parisian comfort stations, that were sent him by ladies too quickly confident, and were paid for with the money of unwitting husbands, which is acceptable any place in the world.
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Everything else lay tidy: flower vases emptied, ash-trays cleaned, no stray coffee-cups, no abandoned books.
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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Everything else lay tidy: flower vases emptied, ash-trays cleaned, no stray coffee-cups, no abandoned books.
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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